Ponting digs in to make England pay for not catching on

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Adelaide Oval (third day of five): Australia, with five first-innings wickets in hand, are 239 runs behind England

It was in Adelaide 74 years ago that Bill Woodfull made his famous retort to Pelham Warner after being hit over the heart by a bouncer from Harold Larwood: “There’s two teams out there, but only one of them’s playing cricket.” For the first three days of this series, Australia’s present captain, Ricky Ponting, might have said the same, without a trace of bitterness, but not any more.

Despite compiling yet another Test hundred, the tenth in his past 13 Tests, he